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Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act (IIRAIRA)

A major legislative change in 1996 that expanded grounds for removal and sped up processes.

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How many immigrants were removed by Bill Clinton and was anyone killed?

’s administrations (FY1993–FY2000) oversaw roughly 827,100 formal “removals” (court-ordered deportations) according to tallies as reported by fact-checkers, while many contemporary accounts and later ...